Statuette of the God Horus

Arts of Africa

Third Intermediate Period, Dynasties 22–25 (?) (about 945–656 BCE)

Egyptian

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Africa

Artist: Ancient Egyptian
Title: Statuette of the God Horus
Place: Egypt (Object made in)
Date: 945 BCE–656 BCE
Medium: Electrum
Dimensions: 7.9 × 2.2 × 1.6 cm (3 1/8 × 7/8 × 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Henry H. Getty, Charles L. Hutchinson, Norman W. Harris, and Robert H. Fleming
Reference Number: 1894.272
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Thomas George Allen, A Handbook of the Egyptian Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), p. 105 (ill.).
Günther Roeder, Ägyptische Bronzefiguren (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 1956), p. 86 §123d, pl. 74d.

The Art Institute of Chicago, acquired in 1894; price reimbursed by Henry H. Getty, Charles L. Hutchinson, Robert H. Fleming, and Norman W. Harris.

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